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    elections were held in Spain on 16 February 1936. At stake were all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes Generales. The winners of the 1936 elections were...
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  • It was the first election held in Spain since the 1936 general election before the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the first election held during the...
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    The 1977 Spanish general election was held on Wednesday, 15 June 1977, to elect the Spanish Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress...
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    Spanish general election for the Constituent Cortes was the first such election held in the Second Republic. It took place in several rounds. General...
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    General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1936. Rikken Minseitō emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 205 of...
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    for election in the 1936 Spanish general election and achieved a victory in seats over the right. In September 1936, a few months into the Spanish Civil...
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    Popular Front (Spanish: Frente Popular) was an electoral alliance and pact formed in January 1936 to contest that year's general election by various left-wing...
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    Elections to Spain's legislature, the Cortes Generales, were held on 19 November 1933 for all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes of the Second Spanish...
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    Indirect presidential elections were held in Spain on 26 April and 10 May 1936. In the first stage, 473 electors were elected; in the second, the 473 electors...
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  • neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. February...
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  • 1936 Liechtenstein general election 1936 Lithuanian parliamentary election 1936 Norwegian parliamentary election 1936 Spanish general election 1936 Swedish...
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    The Spanish coup of July 1936 was a military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic but precipitated the Spanish Civil War;...
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    The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Española), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Española), was the form of...
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    The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists....
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  • José Maldonado González (category Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction))
    Oviedo) was the last president of the Spanish Republican government in Exile. Elected in the 1936 Spanish general election as a deputy for Oviedo province,...
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    Francisco Franco Bahamonde (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko βa.aˈmonde]; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist...
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    The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided...
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    Red Terror (Spanish: Terror Rojo) is the name given by historians to various acts of violence committed from 1936 until the end of the Spanish Civil War...
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    Front in the Spanish Civil War were part of a broad leftist coalition founded ahead of the 1936 Spanish general elections. The Second Spanish Republic represented...
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    The Cortes Generales (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkoɾtes xeneˈɾales]; English: Spanish Parliament, lit. 'General Courts') are the bicameral legislative chambers...
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  • process, national unity and progress.'. In the run-up to the 1936 Spanish general elections, Portela and the PCD initially tried to forge an alliance with...
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    Sacanell (Spanish: [saŋˈxuɾxo]; 28 March 1872 – 20 July 1936) was a Spanish general who was one of the military leaders who plotted the July 1936 coup d'état...
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    (1908–1936) Spanish Patriotic Union (1924–1930) National Front Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (1933–1937) Popular Action (1930–1933) Spanish Agrarian...
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    1874 to 1936, the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Culture ensued. The waning of Romantic literature was followed by the development of Spanish Realism...
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    during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), as well as during the following years of the regime of General Francisco Franco.: 89–94  In the 1936–1975 period...
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    gained much support in the months before the Spanish coup of July 1936, which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and it was a major force during...
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    Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939) (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    member Fèlix Escalas (18/12/1935-17/2/1936). After the victory of the Popular Front in the 1936 Spanish general election, the suspension of the Statute was...
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    The 1936 Venezuelan presidential election was held in Venezuela on 28 April 1936, to elect the successor of deceased President of Venezuela Juan Vicente...
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    Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the...
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    José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones (category Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction))
    of the leaders of the "Spanish Christian Democracy" party, which however failed to win support in the Spanish general elections in 1977. José Maria Gil-Robles...
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